Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-09-16
CLIPPINGS.

We dic iuloiH HUI bbtb quite
scene was enacted at, the polls in
Wilson township on Saturday last
at the approach of Uncle Jimmie
Moody, who has been quite i'll for
several weeks. He had prayed
fervently for the past two weeks to
be spared long enough to vote for
local option. 1t was by the great
est effort that he. was driver, to the
polls in a carriage, and arriving
there he raised himself long
enough to utter the following: at
is the last vote that L ever expect
to cast. Not that it will do me
any good, but that it may do the
rising generations good, / want to
give my last vote against whisky -
10 those acquainted with Uncle
Jimmie these words have q pecu-
liar significance. He is an aged
gentleman, and has always been a
hard drinker, and. Knows the de-
leterious effects of whisky
Unionville Republican.
A gang of Egyptian wheat
swlndlers were operating
at Marionville and Mt.
Vernon, this state, last week and
at least $1,000 has been secured
from honest Urrsuspecting farmers.
The gang secured the confidence
of number of rich and influential
farmers. Their method was to get
farmers to take ten bushels of
wheat at SIS per bushel and in
the absence Of cash induce them
to give note for $115 payable in
thirteen months. To counter
balance this they gave an obscurely
worded bond to three times the
amount of wheat within a year on
condition that a commission of s.
per bushel should be allowed to
tb en-, Heavy crops have been made
in Lawrence and adjoining coun-
ties and the farmers had money in
abundance and bit with avidity.-
Monroe News.
Some street fakirs were working
the town this morning with the
two dollar change racket. lis well
to look after them and give them a
warm reception. Their plan is
to buy some small article and give
atwo dollar bill in payment. When
the change is handed them, they
ask to exchange small change for
a dollar, and when the dollar is
handed out they lay the change by
it and shove both back and ask to
have the two dollar bill given
them. One dollar of the money
already belongs to the merchant,
but being taken unawares, he
hands out the two dollar bill and
takes the two dollars before him,
thus losing a dollar. The scheme
looks very simple, and is, but
taken unawares you are likely to be
caught.-Trenton Times
DR. O'Niel, as we predicted, has
proven himself to be a grand
scoundrel and professional dead
beat, and it would not surprise us
In the least if he is not wanted in
Canada very badly. While in
Knox City he succeeded in doing
up the hotel to the tune of 500
and would have done the thing up
brown, had the landlord not fired
him when he did. Aside from
beating the hotel every business
man that trusted him joins in
the procession of mourners. At
Edna the Ennis house is interest
ed in him to the extent of SIS,
with other victims to hear from.
We mourned for a time, but are
now well paid and if the CDR" will
call at this print shop we will give
him receipt in full, as the salts
faction of exposing him amply
liquidates the debt. This same
scoudrel makes it his business to
curse the institutions and customs
of the Union, while he boasts of
the merits of Canada, and con-
tinues to dead beat his living off
the citizens of the United States.
The sooner such quack doc tors are
run out of the country the better it
is for our people. Brother of the
press, pass him around; and if you
are running his "ad.,'' drop it as
you would viper! 1t is poison!
-LaBelle Star.
Whatever DR.. O'Niel's short
comings may be, we can say this
for him, he paid his bill at the
GRAPHIC Office, and that without
waiting for the account to be pre-
',ented. Further than this we
know nothing about him as he |
never was in this Office but twice,
the first time to make his contract, |
and the second time to pay his ac-
couTlt.
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